Our Australia trip

It is hard to say goodbye to such a nice spot but we’ve heard there’s more to see in Tasmania. So we pack up and drive along the Esperance river back to the main road. We want to see how much south we can go and decide to go to Cockle Creek. First we stop […]

From Hobart we want to go as south as possible along the east cost as we can on bitumen road. Marjo has listed things we want to see and the Tahune Airwalk is one of those things. We arrive at the information centre and find out that its not easy to do with the dog […]

Marjo made this from ochre, leaves and white sand on a small patch of moss.

From Wayatinah we get closer to the east coast. This becomes evident in the changing landscape. Suddenly we also notice that the bush fires in Tasmania have not all been extinguished. Up to now we have not seen any signs of burnt bush. But here it is quite evident that fire came very close to […]

We woke up with more rain, lucky drizzle this time. We pack up and head further south east. As soon as we are on the road the clouds open. And soon the sun comes out to steam dry the roads. The road takes us through a national park and gives us nice views of streams […]

As soon as we packed up at Macquarie Heads it started to rain. The howling wind made it a horizontal rain and we left the hordes of quad bikers clad in yellow wet weather gear and took the 11 km of corrugated road back. We visited the historic place called Queenstown and it has not […]

Leaving Mackintosh dam was not easy and with hindsight we should have stayed longer. But we didn’t. Slowly we packed up and moved down hill closer to the west coast. Along the road we stopped at various falls, one nicer than the other. We also passed a Magnetite mine. Magnetite is the most magnetic of […]

We have seen enough of the North West coast and decide to go South. That means back tracking some of the roads that we have driven before but since we took the scenic road going west, we now take the quicker road back and slowly say goodbye to the coast and drives to the hills. […]

We are getting close to the end of the bitumen road in the north west. Well there’s Arthur River but we’ve been warned of the swarms of horse flies there. With my love for buzzing and stinging animals we decided to not go there. So we do another loop inland to the South Arthur Forest. […]